Spectrum digitizerNETBOX DN2.44 Series Hardware Manual page 5

IVI Driver......................................................................................................................... 64
About IVI........................................................................................................................................................................... 64
General Concept of the Spectrum IVI driver ........................................................................................................................... 64
Supported Spectrum Hardware ............................................................................................................................................ 65
Supported data acquisition card families: ........................................................................................................................ 65
Supported digitizerNETBOX families ............................................................................................................................... 65
Supported generatorNETBOX families............................................................................................................................. 65
IVI Compliance .................................................................................................................................................................. 65
Supported Operating Systems ........................................................................................................................................ 65
Supported Standard Driver Features................................................................................................................................ 66
IVIScope Supported Class Capabilities............................................................................................................................ 66
IVIDigitizer Supported Class Capabilities......................................................................................................................... 66
IVIFGen Supported Class Capabilities ............................................................................................................................. 67
Find more Information on IVI................................................................................................................................................ 67
General Information on IVI............................................................................................................................................. 67
IVI Getting Started Guides and Videos ............................................................................................................................ 67
Installation......................................................................................................................................................................... 67
Installer ....................................................................................................................................................................... 67
Shared Components ..................................................................................................................................................... 67
Installation Procedure .................................................................................................................................................... 67
Installation of the IVI driver package ............................................................................................................................... 68
Configuration Store ............................................................................................................................................................ 69
General Information...................................................................................................................................................... 69
Repeated Capabilities ................................................................................................................................................... 69
Programming the Board .................................................................................................. 70
Overview .......................................................................................................................................................................... 70
Register tables ................................................................................................................................................................... 70
Programming examples....................................................................................................................................................... 70
Initialization....................................................................................................................................................................... 71
Initialization of Remote Products ........................................................................................................................................... 71
Error handling.................................................................................................................................................................... 71
Gathering information from the card..................................................................................................................................... 72
Card type .................................................................................................................................................................... 72
Hardware and PCB version ........................................................................................................................................... 73
Reading currently used PXI slot No. (M4x only) ................................................................................................................ 73
Production date ............................................................................................................................................................ 73
Last calibration date (analog cards only) ......................................................................................................................... 73
Serial number .............................................................................................................................................................. 74
Maximum possible sampling rate ................................................................................................................................... 74
Installed memory .......................................................................................................................................................... 74
Installed features and options ......................................................................................................................................... 74
Miscellaneous Card Information ..................................................................................................................................... 75
Function type of the card ............................................................................................................................................... 75
Used type of driver ....................................................................................................................................................... 75
Reset................................................................................................................................................................................. 76
Gathering information from the digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX ....................................................................................... 77
Analog Inputs.................................................................................................................. 78
Channel Selection .............................................................................................................................................................. 78
Important note on channels selection ............................................................................................................................... 79
Setting up the inputs ........................................................................................................................................................... 79
Input Path .................................................................................................................................................................... 79
Input ranges................................................................................................................................................................. 79
Input offset................................................................................................................................................................... 81
Read out of input features .............................................................................................................................................. 82
Input termination........................................................................................................................................................... 82
Input coupling .............................................................................................................................................................. 83
AC/DC offset compensation .......................................................................................................................................... 83
Anti aliasing filter (Bandwidth limit)................................................................................................................................. 83
Automatic on-board calibration of the offset and gain settings............................................................................................ 83
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